For the Wednesday work party on 25th March we finished off the work we've been doing to create the new open space we have named the Glade.
Part of the work we did over the past few work parties involved the coppicing of some of the small trees that were in that area. This produced a lot of material varying in size from fairly substantial logs to thin twiggy bits. The logs will be used elsewhere in the woods for repairs to the steps we've built and the twiggy bits fill the dead hedges. Between these extremes there were thinner pieces we can use as stakes, and thin pliable ones like heatherings. We are going to use these to refurbish the leaky dams we built last year.
The volunteers completed the last section of dead hedge and sharpened some stakes, then
we moved the larger logs, stakes and heatherings up to the dams.
This is one of the three leaky dams we built last year to help control the water flow in the winter that can cause some flooding lower down the stream near our tool store.
This is the second dam and you can see that both of them need some care and attention.
Earlier on while we were in the glade we heard a noise that turned out to be a falling tree. It had fallen over the Jubilee Way path and was causing a blockage so Aiden, Jim, Peter and me went across to deal with it. It had broken at its base and was still attached to part of the stump.
We cut the branches up into manageable pieces ...
... then moved the trunk across the path out of the way.
Elsewhere in the woodland there are signs of Spring with primroses alongside the path up the valley near post 10 ...
... and more primroses and some bluebells alongside the main entrance.
Good progress has been made over the last few work parties and the glade is ready for use.
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